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Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs is a Special Forces commander with cybernetic enhancements and one of the main protagonists of the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. He is the partner and best friend of Sonya Blade, the father of Jacqui Briggs, and the godfather of Cassie Cage.
Jax was portrayed by John Parrish from Mortal Kombat II to Mortal Kombat 4/Gold, Craig J. Harris in Special Forces and Deadly Alliance, Simeon Norfleet in Shaolin Monks and Armageddon, Dan Washington in MKvsDCU, with Marz Timms and Greg Eagles in MK9 and X respectively, and William Christopher Stephens from Mortal Kombat 11 onwards.
While Jax does not appear in the story mode of this game, he appears as a Kameo fighter in the gameplay.
Jax does appear in Kenshi Takahashi's ending, where he is revealed to be an FBI Agent in the New Era. Here, he saved Kenshi from an assassination attempt by the Yakuza, and the two joined forces against them. While they intended to part ways, Jax was surprised to encounter a sorcerer called Shang Tsung, whom attempted to steal Kenshi's sword Sento. After they fought him off, Kenshi revealed that the fantasy movies Johnny Cage directed were based on reality, and after the shock wore off, Jax realised Earth faced terrible danger. Jax managed to convince his FBI bosses to form the Outworld Investigation Agency, and he and Kenshi became agents.
Jax is depicted as an African-American man, having dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. Jax's most striking feature is his impressive muscular upper body build, keeping his torso bare in all but one of his appearances. In his first appearances, he wore karate pants and boots. From Mortal Kombat 3 and onwards, he wears a pair of bionic armor-plating that covers and protects both of his arms.
It is not known whether his arms were replaced or upgraded in the original storyline. However, it is possible that he may have used bionic implants until the events of Deception, where he may have willingly had his own arms removed in favor of mechanical replacements. In the alternate timeline of MK 2011, he was forced to use metallic arms in order to survive, after having his organic arms telekinetically dismembered by Ermac.
In MKX, he wears a camouflage vest with his last name Briggs on his right upper vest pocket with his left upper pocket acting as a storage for his cigars and he still wears his dog tag around his neck, along with two more additional pockets near his abdomen. He has an American flag wrapped up and tied around his upper right arm and he wears green pants with some additional color of black on them and wears black army boots.
While his Kameo counterpart resembles his MK2 design, the Jax of the New Era is clean shaven, wearing a suit with a black jacket and tie, as well as sunglasses, having him look like the archetypical FBI agent.
Personality[]
Jax is clear-headed, loyal, careful, and always keeping a watch on what his men are doing. When the need arises, he is the best on the battlefield with the attitude and ferocity of a lion.
In his Armageddon ending, Jax Briggs wish is to use the power of Blaze to reform and change the Tekunin form being evil cyborgs. Jax in Armageddon much like Jax from Mortal Kombat X also wants to retire from the Special Forces and he wants the power of Blaze to do this. While Jax uses the power to become leader of the Tekunin it never know what Jax decides to do or does after becoming their leader.
Unlike the other kombatants, Jax doesn't become a god or a ruler of of a realm when he receives the power of Blaze. Jax also smokes a lot of cigars the reason for this because he mentions and proves that he has won a lot of fights.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Superhuman Strength:
Superhuman Speed:
Superhuman Agility:
Superhuman Reflexes:
Superhuman Durability:
Superhuman Endurance;
Superhuman Stamina:
Energy Manipulation:
Size Augmentation:
With Bionic Arms[]
Cybernetic Enhancement: From MKIII and onward, Jax had worn a pair of bionic armor plating which covers and protects both of his arms and gives him the following powers and enhancements. In the original timeline, it's not known if his original arms have been removed or upgraded, but he had may have used bionic implants until Deception, where he may had willingly removed his own arms in favor of mechanical replacements. In the alternate timeline, starting with Mortal Kombat (2011), he was forced to have cybernetic arms after his organic ones were ripped off by Ermac. As the alternate timeline proceeded, he had furthered modified them with the upgrades he had included.
Strength Augmentation:
Missile Generation:
Energy Enhancers:
Weapon Creation:
Heat Infusion:
Heat Missile Generation:
Abilities[]
Master Martial Artist:
Muay Thai
Judo
Kickboxing
Wrestling
Master Acrobat:
Stealth Expertise:
Weapon Mastery:
Master Marksman
Genius-Level Intellect:
Master Tactician and Strategist:
Expert Scientist:
Expert Engineer:
Leadership:
Indomitable Will:
Quotes[]
“
If not for Liu Kang, I'd still be under the Dragon King's spell killing the people I've decided my life to protect.
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~ Jax Briggs biography in Mortal Kombat Deception
“
Stand and fight like a man
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~ Jax Briggs in Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
“
Sonya, you're going to be okay. I'll get you out of here.
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~ Jax Briggs to Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
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Bring it!!
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~ Jax Briggs's Battle Cry in Mortal Kombat (2011).
“
Get some!
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~ Jax Briggs victory quote
“
Don't mess with me, Liu.
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~ Jax Briggs before confronting Liu Kang
“
How do you like that?
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~ Jax Briggs preforming his X-Ray move
“
She better not have a scratch on her.
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~ Jax Briggs worrying about Sonya Blade
“
I'll be fine you stay here.
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~ Jax Briggs
“
Wouldn't be the first time.
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~ Jax Briggs while Sareena is afraid he will die
“
Yeah, I know what you mean. But this isn't the way to assert yourself.
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~ Jax Briggs about to fight Revenant Kitana
“
I gotta believe there's hope for you.
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~ Jax Briggs after defeating Revenant Kitana
“
I wish I could help you, Liu Kang.
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~ Jax Briggs after defeating Revenant Liu Kang
“
That knocked some of my rust off.
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~ Jax after defeating Kung Lao in Mortal Kombat X.
“
Then let's play.
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~ Jax Briggs after Sub-Zero talks about killing him
“
Trust is earned.
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~ Jax Briggs after Sub-Zero ask if Jax trust him
“
You sure about this Cassie?
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~ Jax Briggs to Cassie Cage
“
Prove it.
„
~ Jax Briggs after Jacqui says she is ready to join Special Forces
“
I can't protect you forever.
„
~ Jax Briggs going to train his daughter
“
Day at the hospital it is.
„
~ Jax Briggs after Kung Jin calls him a has been
“
Always so smug?
„
~ Jax Briggs to Kano
“
There are things worse than death.
„
~ Jax Briggs to Quan Chi
“
You made me a monster.
„
~ Jax Briggs to Quan Chi
“
Are you blind? I'm back to normal.
„
~ Jax Briggs after Raiden thinks Quan Chi still has control of him
“
Got a daughter to protect.
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~ Jax Briggs to Shinnok
“
Bring it on.
„
~ Jax Briggs after Tremor says he wants Jax's head
“
I got a family to protect.
„
~ Jax Briggs
“
I know you suffered. You still do. But you don’t betray your unit, and you sure as hell don’t betray your family.
„
~ The younger Jax to his older self, Mortal Kombat 11.
“
Do me a favor, Fujin, and take one giant step back. You too, sorcerer. Makes sense we meet again down here. Where you caged me up, beat me within an inch of my life. The hell if I ain't gonna return the favor.
„
~ Jax in Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath.
“
There’s the Sindel I remember.
„
~ Jax to Fujin as Sindel arrives to the keep with Shao Kahn and the Outworld armies
Trivia[]
Jax's original name was going to be Kurtis Stryker, but this was recycled later for another character introduced in Mortal Kombat 3.
He was originally going to be a kickboxer, but this was scrapped due to similarities to a number of Street Fighter characters. He originally wore a yellow martial arts gi, but this concealed his physique so it was dropped. There was game footage of Jax shot with his original gi costume, but his actor split the pants during shooting.
Before Sonya was created, Jax was conceived with her scenario, but since there were no female characters, Midway conceived Sonya as his replacement.
Interestingly in Mortal Kombat: Unchained, when Havik performs a fatality where he eats the opponents arms and vomits the remains, he still vomits meat when he does it to Jax, despite Jax's arms being metal.
His code name is "Cobra" according to early production shots of Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.
When Jax is knocked off the sky temple in Armageddon, he yells "Oh my god! This is not happening to me!"
His fighting stance from MK3 is similar to that of some of the male ninjas and comes from the Shaolin Fist fighting style.
Jax is one of the only two characters to have his own game, the other being [1]Bi-han.
He looks like Ramirez from the rockstar game Manhunt 1
